NASA’s Lucy Captures First Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson Ahead of Close Flyby
Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...
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NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Reveals Surprising Complexity of Asteroid Dinkinesh
Lucy approached Dinkinesh in November 2023, revealing that it had a small moon now dubbed Selam. This smaller companion ...
Lucy spacecraft takes its first images of asteroid Donaldjohanson
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the ...
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First-Ever Asteroid Mining Mission Loses Contact With Earth
The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized spacecraft, dubbed Odin, to visit an asteroid millions of ... the team lost contact entirely. A number of space companies have raised ...
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NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe takes 1st images of its next target: Donaldjohanson
Like Donaldjohanson, Dinkinesh and Selam are also inhabitants of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Selam in particular was very interesting because it turned out to be a contact binary ...
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NASA spacecraft gets first photos of Asteroid Donaldjohansen on way to exploring even bigger space prize
The spacecraft has valued experience as it successfully observed the tiny main belt asteroid Dinkinesh and its contact binary moon, Selam, in November 2023. NASA says this second asteroid ...
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An asteroid could collide with Earth: What could happen, and should we worry?
An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth Saturday ... a majority of asteroids do not have a 1% or more chance of making contact with Earth, especially not “one large enough to cause serious ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft captures first images of asteroid Donaldjohanson
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently obtained its first clear images of the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, which is now within its line of sight. Lucy captured these images while it was 45 ...